 Tis all on me an usurpation. I have no title to aspire ; Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher; In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six, It gives me such a jealous fit,...  The works of ... Jonathan Swift - Página 177de Jonathan Swift - 1752 - 80 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 páginas
...The strongest friendship yields to pride, Unless the odds be on our side. Vain human kind ! fantastic race ! Thy various follies who can trace ? Self-love,...station, Tis all to me an usurpation I have no title to aspire ; Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 362 páginas
...The strongest friendship yields to pride, Unless the odds be on our side. Vain human-kind! fantastic race! Thy various follies who can trace? Self-love,...divide. Give others riches, power, and station, 'Tis all on me an usurpation. I have no title to aspire; Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1860 - 1090 páginas
...the odds be on our side. humankind! fantastic race! tThy various follies who can trace? Belf-love, ambition, envy, pride, Their empire in our hearts...divide, Give others riches, power, and station, "Tis all on me a usurpation. I have no title to aspire ; Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 páginas
...vain ; Awhile he crawls upon the earth, Then sinks to earth again. Pope. Vain human-kind ! fantastic race ! Thy various follies who can trace ? Self-love,...ambition, envy, pride. Their empire in our hearts divide. Svifl. Fond man ! the vision of a moment made ! Dream ofadream ! and shadow of a shade ! Young, Par.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 páginas
...where his genius least inclines, Absurdly bends his whole designs. SWIFT. Vain human kind ! fantastic race ! Thy various follies who can trace ? Self-love,...ambition, envy, pride, Their empire in our hearts divide. SWIFT. What were unenlighten'd man ? A savage roaming through the woods and wilds In quest of prey.... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 páginas
...The strongest friendship yields to pride, Unless the odds be on our side. Vain human-kind ! fantastic ast rec heart divide. Give others riches, power, and station, 'Tis all to me an usurpation. i have no title... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 páginas
...And, where his genius least inclines, Absurdly bends his whole designs. Vain human kind ! fantastic race ! Thy various follies who can trace ? Self-love,...ambition, envy, pride, Their empire in our hearts divide. SWIFT. SWIFT. What were unenlighten'd man? A savage roaming through the woods and wilds In quest of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 páginas
...The strongest friendship yields to pride, Unless the odds be on our side. Vain human kind ! fantastic race ! Thy various follies who can trace ? Self-love,...divide. Give others riches, power, and station, 'Tis all on me an usurpation. I have no title to aspire ; Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher; In Pope I cannot... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 páginas
...fools ! — -Go, go, you're bit.' FROM 'VERSES ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT.' Vain human kind ! fantastic race ! Thy various follies who can trace? Self-love,...divide. Give others riches, power, and station, 'Tis all on me a usurpation. I have no title to aspire ; Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 páginas
...The strongest friendship yields to pride, Unless the odds be on our side. Vain human-kind ! fantastic race ! Thy various follies who can trace? Self-love,...divide. Give others riches, power, and station ; Tis all on me an usurpation. I have no title to aspire ; Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot... | |
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